US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Sept. 1 for "Closed loop composite welding and bonding system using radio-frequency and pressure" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,346, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Closed loop composite welding and bonding system using radio-frequency and pressure" was invented by Aniruddh Vashisth (Seattle), Santosh Devasia (Seattle), Ian Enriquez (Seattle), Katrina Teo (Seattle) and Colin A. Noronha (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bonding system includes a heating element, an actuator, an infrared camera, a pressure sensor and/or a displacement sensor, one or more processors, and a computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the bonding system to perform functions i...